Ah Sean you spotted the odd item out:) Brenda is holding one of two ubolts that are intended to go at the top of the vertical poles and to which we hope to attach the bungees. She is freeing of the thread on the one she is holding

Presumably squeezes the billet between the upright near the saddle and the business end.

I'm not sure this type was used in the UK(but I stand to be corrected). A lot of this type of work in the UK was done standing up using a brake. From the look of the draw knife that shave horse was used for de-barking/rounding. Pity it's landed up in a museum and is not in use. The length adjustment looks really useful. I guess it would have been quite a job to build it without the use of a chain saw - that long slot would have needed quite some chisel work.

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Thanks for posting the spoon makers shaving horse Witt, very simple and interesting design. I personally have not seen anything like it yet in the UK, but that just means I have not seen many old shave horses.I know that there have been designs for holding axe handles whilst shaving it, basically much like the 2 poppets on a pole lathe. The axe handle is fixed in just like a billet of wood on a pole lathe and the screw done up tight. The handle is easily turned round on its axis for shaving.

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Good grief, a clog-maker's horse. We need a stirring rendition of En passant pour la Lorraine, avec mes sabots to go with it, but unfortunately we can't upload tunes. I am impressed by the variety and sheer ingenuity of the horses posted on this thread. Love it.

Totally off-topic, I suppose, but I just typed "en passant pour la lorraine avec mes sabots" into Google and got all kinds of hits. My mother used to sing that to me when I was a very young child. I still remember the tune, I have saved the words, and you may find the words as well as a YouTube rendition on line. Fine music to carve sabots by Interesting that the humble sabot gave rise to our English (and Spanish, for that matter) word "sabotage" because workers (machinery-haters) would throw their sabots into machinery to jam it.

Oh, don't worry about being not straight and narrow enough. Don't feel chained up by absurd worries.Haven't I stained your imagination with idle talks before ?May I risk some new ones and, doing so, offering to your eyes their troubling details ?First of all I have to depict that Hélène once her muddy clogs were off was all dedicated to the satisfaction of less honnest pleasures than it seemed, pleasures in which a libertin could find the salt of debauchery able to delight him better than everything else.[